# James Wilcox James Wilcox is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior DevOps Engineer at Komodo Health, based in United States. Source: https://himalayas.app/@jameswilcox ```text Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS/Azure cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and secure, compliant CI/CD. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Open to opportunities | | Location | United States | | Authorized to work in | United States | | Job categories | Senior DevOps Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Senior DevOps, Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, Senior AWS DevOps Engineer, Senior DevOps Architect, Cloud DevOps Engineer | | Skills | Amazon EKS, AWS, Azure, EC2, EMR, RDS, S3, IAM, Cloudwatch, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, CI CD, GitOps, GitHub Actions, Gitlab, Jenkins, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Airflow, Apache Spark, JupyterHub, Livy, Snowflake, Okta, SAML, HashiCorp Vault Certification, Prometheus, Datadog, ELK Stack, Logstash, Kibana, Splunk, Nagios, ELB, AutoScaling, Route 53, KMS, Python, BASH, SQL, FHIR, HL7, Azure DevOps, Elasticsearch, Grafana, PostgreSQL, SSO, OAuth, CloudFormation | ## What I'm looking for ```text I’m looking for a team where I can build and operate secure, compliant cloud-native platforms—especially Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines—while improving reliability, observability, and cost efficiency in a fast-moving product environment. ``` ## About ```text I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for healthcare and SaaS platforms. My focus is delivering scalable, reliable, and compliant environments that accelerate software delivery and support large-scale data-driven applications. At Komodo Health, I architected and operated an AWS-based healthcare analytics platform powering the HealthcareMap/MapLab ecosystem for 150+ enterprise customers. I support multi-tenant analytics on Amazon EKS, EMR, Airflow, Snowflake, and shared platform services—enabling teams to provision analytics workspaces in under 2 minutes while maintaining 99.9% availability. I design CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins, reducing deployment times by 60% and supporting 300+ production releases annually. I also improve efficiency and reliability by tuning Kubernetes workloads, EMR autoscaling, Spark allocation, and Spot usage—cutting AWS infrastructure costs by ~25% while supporting 2x workload growth. I lead operational ownership across IAM/RBAC and SAML/SSO integrations, along with observability and incident response using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch. I’ve driven measurable improvements in MTTR (90 minutes to under 30), helped operationalize new platforms (MapLab/MapView/MapAI), and strengthened healthcare data pipeline reliability from 95% to 99.5%. ``` ## Experience ### Senior DevOps Engineer (current) Komodo Health. Feb 2022 - Present ```text Architected and operated an AWS platform supporting Komodoʼs Healthcare Map ecosystem for 150+ enterprise customers, achieving 99.9% platform availability. Built Terraform/Helm/ArgoCD CI/CD and optimized Kubernetes, EMR, and cost controls to cut deployment times by 60%, reduce AWS costs ~25%, and improve pipeline reliability from 95% to 99.5%. ``` Skills: AWS, Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, CI-CD, Grafana, Cloudwatch, Amazon-EMR ### Senior DevOps Engineer Innovaccer. Mar 2018 - Feb 2022 ```text Operated cloud infrastructure for Innovaccer Health Cloud and the Data Activation Platform, enabling ingestion and processing of 54M+ unified patient records. Automated deployments with Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes/Helm/IaC to increase release frequency and improve deployment success to 99%+, while raising reliability from 98% to 99.9% and reducing failed ingestion jobs by ~70%. ``` Skills: AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, Helm, Data-Reliability-Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudwatch ### DevOps Engineer Atlassian. Sep 2016 - Mar 2018 ```text Automated Jira Cloud and Confluence Cloud provisioning and configuration on AWS using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bash, and Python, reducing environment deployment time from ~2 days to under 2 hours. Built CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo/Bitbucket/Jenkins) to increase deployment frequency ~40%, reduce failed production releases by 30%, and improve service availability from ~99.90% to ~99.95%. ``` Skills: EC2, Security-Hardening, Terraform, ELB, RDS, S3, Route-53, CI-CD, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Docker, CloudFormation, ELK-Stack, Nagios, BASH, Python, SSL-TLS ## Education ### Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), Azure DevOps ```text Earned the Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) certification. ``` ### Texas State University Bachelor of Science, Computer Science. 2012 - 2016 ```text Earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas State University (2012–2016). ``` ### Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Cloud Architecture ```text Earned the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional credential. ``` ### Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, DevOps Engineering ```text Earned the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional credential. ``` ### Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Kubernetes Administration ```text Earned the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification. ``` ## Tech stack - Splunk - GitLab - Bitbucket - Kubernetes - Jenkins - PostgreSQL - Gmail - Okta - Terraform - Azure DevOps - Logstash - Grafana - Kibana - Prometheus - Nagios - Datadog - Elasticsearch - Ansible - OAuth2 - sso - Airflow - SQL - ArgoCD - Bash - Kustomize To contact James, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Ali Bash](https://himalayas.app/@alibash): Cloud Engineer CI/CD & Cloud Infrastructure, CircleCI - [Mubeen Sheikh](https://himalayas.app/@mubeensheikh): Senior Site Reliability Engineer, RXNT - [Muhammad Ali](https://himalayas.app/@muhammadali44): Senior DevOps Engineer, HealthEdge Software - [Muhammad Ali](https://himalayas.app/@muhammadali45): Senior DevOps Engineer, HealthEdge Software - [Austin Hussain](https://himalayas.app/@austinhussain): Senior DevOps Engineer, IStreams Solution - [MEHR AZEEM](https://himalayas.app/@mehrazeem): Senior DevOps Engineer, Clodovatech - [Christian Li](https://himalayas.app/@christianli): Solutions Architect/DevOps, Walmart - [Farooq Ahmed](https://himalayas.app/@farooqahmed2): Lead Cloud Architect, NVIDIA - [Adrian User](https://himalayas.app/@adrianuser6): Lead DevOps Engineer, Cloudhesive - [Jason Kramberger](https://himalayas.app/@jasonkramberger): Senior DevOps / Cloud Platform Engineer, YapBuzz